100 Years Ago Today

On November 3, 1908 voters of Hood River were deciding between William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan. Teddy Roosevelt was retiring, and his hand picked successor Taft won.

It was four years before women would win the right to vote in Oregon (national women's suffrage didn't happen until 1920). Hood River County had just been created in June by a ballot initiative. Here's the partisan breakdown of the Hood River County electorate in its first election: